Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Igor Stravinsky Chamber Works 1911-1954 (Columbia). A representative collection, presumably played as well as possible, since the composer himself is brandishing the baton. At one stylistic extreme is his Septet, which makes use of a method of composition similar to that used by his late rival. Arnold (Twelve-Tone) Schoenberg. At the other extreme are Stravinsky's early songs, orchestrated recently, which, in Marni Nixon's bell-clear soprano, have a childlike charm...
...popeyed, bushy-haired little man had scarcely raised his baton to signal the opening of the piano concerto's slow movement when he paled and swayed on the podium. Soloist Vera Franceschi swiftly signaled the sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
With most of his program gone with the Baton Rouge wind, Earl Long was still ready and willing to play with fire to get his way: if his timber tax bill failed to pass, he warned, he might veto a measure appropriating funds for fire fighting in Louisiana's vast forests...
After playing solo piano in his own arrangement of Cole Porter tunes under Fiedler's direction, the conductor of the Harvard Band picked up his own baton for a series of Harvard medleys. The modal renditions of College songs were punctuated by the popping of Crimson balloons on the tips of the violinists' bows...
Although Greenebaum is leaving, the orchestra will continue under the baton of Michael Senturia. As well as giving expert oboe performances in the cantatas, Senturia conducted Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor. It was clear that he had worked the orchestra hard in rehearsals, for even though he conducted a little stiffly, the volumes and tempi were well chosen, and the orchestra responded well. Despite the loss of its founder, the Bach Society Orchestra should continue to be one of the top musical organizations in Cambridge...